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AddReply(155622,"Reply to Ibrahim and general comments","Phillip Slepian","Elizabeth, NJ, USA","06/29/04","How can you accuse Mr. Underwood of being merciless when it is Israeli kindergarten children that are being blown to bits on their way to school?  What would he have you do?  Easy:  Settle in one of the 22 Arab countries surrounding Israel, Europe, anywhere but Gaza or the West Bank.  Stop tacitly supporting the terrorists in your midst by doing nothing to stop them.  In Israel, if an Israeli attempts to commit an act of terror on Arabs, the military, police, courts and citizenry all mobilize to stop him.  Where is the equivalent action by Arabs like you in Gaza?  As has been said: \"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\"  Do your homework; Islam does not assert a claim over the Land of Israel any more than it does over the rest of the non-Muslim world.  You are simply accepting Arafat\'s false version of history and Islam.  On the other hand, Israel has been the Jewish homeland for thousands of years.  Judaism, in contrast,  makes no claim on lands outside of biblical Israel.  Israel is not fighting Islam; it is fighting for survival.  If your brothers in suicide belts would lay down their arms, they would be welcome to live in peace among Israelis in a Jewish state.  This is not about arable land; the only industry the PA has supported is the terror industry.  What have YOU done to change this?  Tell the mother of the four-year-old who was killed by a Qassam rocket fired from Gaza this week (as she herself lies in a hospital as a result of the same rocket) that Israel\'s security will not be compromised by retreating from Gaza. Israel has offered a hand of peace to you, our \"brothers\" two times, in 1948 and 2000, only to have that hand bitten both times.  How many more times would you suggest we bare our necks to you?  Our hands are NOT \"marred with blood.\"  Yours are.  Israeli military forces that fight in defense of Israel\'s civilian population are not \"marred with blood.\"  They are heroes.  Do not try to equate the Israeli victims of Arab terror with the Arab terrorists.  We are not interested in arguing whose fault the violence is; we know it is the fault of the Arabs.  The day the Arabs stop targeting Jews, there will be no more Arab deaths.  You know that your leaders do not consider an Israeli retreat to the 1967 cease-fire lines sufficient to end \"the struggle.\"  When your leaders speak of \"occupied\" lands, they mean Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, not just Gaza City and Jericho.  \"Peace\" to a faithful Muslim and the leaders of the Palestinian Arabs means nothing less than the destruction of the one Jewish state.  Besides, this was more-or-less the deal that was offered in 2000.  You answered our offer with a war.  After four years, some of us get it; you want us out of Israel, and no State of Palestine that excludes any part of Israel will suffice.  Either you are a fool or you think we are fools.\n\nThat said, how can Mr. Underwood expect the US government to take a harder line on Israeli defense issues than Israel\'s own Prime Minister?  When Israel elects a government that stands for peace and security through strength and deterence, not appeasement and retreat, then Americans can ask who Israel\'s real friends are.");
AddReply(155621,"What shall you have us do?","Ibrahim","Gaza","06/28/04","I read your Israel newspaper with an open mind, but don\'t understand how you can be so merciless.  3.5 million of us in these occupied territories.  Only a relatively small number of us resort to the horrible extremism of suiced bombings which i heavily deplore.  But Islam and Judaism both claim heavenly rights to these lands.  Therefore perhaps it is in both of our best interests to concede to these secular court rulings instead of fighting to our deaths for religion.  \nYou also say that a removal from here (gaza) makes Israel \"inherently indefensible\",  how is taht so?  Gaza is only 350 square kilometers, and how of that is occupied by settlers?  Furthermore, how much of that land is the most arable in the region?  How much more sparsely populated is that area than my overcrowded Gaza city?  With all of Israel\'s military might is an insult to your own army to feel that moving your miliatry installations a few kilometers away (into the Green line) will compromise your security that much.  \nThere will be security in our region when us two brothers hold each other\'s hands and join as friends that at leats respect each other.  Both of our hands are marred unfortunately with blood and we can argue forever over to whoms fault each individual drop of blood pertains or we can strive towards now more violence, no more occupation, no more bulldozers, no more suicide bombers, no more tanks, no more tunnels.  Soverign palestine state in west bank and gaza with right of return those territories.");
AddReply(155620,"Righteous version of betrayal","Mark Walker","Chesapeake, Virginia USA","06/28/04","I would ask Congress what it ws thhnking.  Bush is  a polititina andw ill use theri resultion to his advantage.\n\nThe oh-so-Christian senators and congressmen have forgotten that tey should be \"wise like serpents and gentle as doves.\" Rather, a=they have become as clueless as Circi\'s swine. ");
AddReply(155619,"Dead End","Marcel","Florida","06/27/04","The more Israel trys to be accepted by the family of nations ,the more they are despised and rejected by them.\nEventually Israel\'s leaders will wake up and quit trying so hard to appease,surrender and grovel before this sick,perverse family.\nThe saddest part of this Bush nightmare vision for Israel is that it comes from a so called \'christian\'.\nIt makes those of us who truly love and support Israel look bad.\nThats why it is so long overdue that we should speak out against these corrupt politicians who know only how to lie and decieve the gulliable masses.  \nThere is way too much silence from the \'right\' on the evil and doubleminded plans of this wolf in sheeps clothing who forces will upon the Israel of G-d.       ");

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